Dirty Dozens
Your mama so big she a trip
That’s why your daddy did dip
They were loving cousins
Playing dirty dozens
Ann got hit in the lip
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Categories:
dozens, america, art, children,
Form: Limerick
Playing the Dozens
Your mama said my mama
was blacker than burnt white toast
My daddy said your daddy
was a vanilla, rice cake loving Oriole
Your brother said my brother
was a jive, jitterbugging jigaboo
My sister said your sister
was a nappy head, big lip snaggletooth
Your best friend said my best friend
was an empty can of dummy orange juice
My best friend said your
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Categories:
dozens, feelings, truth, wisdom, words,
Form: Light Verse
Playing the Dozens
Your mama said my mama
was blacker than burnt white toast
My daddy said your daddy
was a vanilla, rice cake loving Oriole
Your brother said my brother
was a jive, jitterbugging jigaboo
My sister said your sister
was a nappy head, big lip snaggletooth
Your best friend said my best friend
was an empty can of dummy orange juice
My best friend said your
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Categories:
dozens, children, truth, wisdom, words,
Form: Light Verse
The Dozens of Hands
How beautiful she was !
When she is sparkling in the queue of displaced
How sincere her sadness was !
As a poem by black and white
I am waving and call her
And scanning my hand
...
After the queues break up
In that cloudy afternoon
We are sheltering in a small restaurant
And sit side by side
With Her
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Categories:
dozens, age, autumn, feelings, grief,
Form: Free verse
Coffins Cheaper By the Dozens
The French are withdrawing a thousand troops
From Afghanistan
Before the end of the year
But only if they are not killed
Too many coffins
Don’t look good
On the French president’s desk
People can count
Especially the dead
Dumped on foreign ground
Without a body bag
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Categories:
dozens, war,
Form: I do not know?
Coffins Cheaper By the Dozens
Coffins cheaper by the dozens
The French
Are withdrawing a thousand troops
From Afghanistan
Before the end of the year
But only if they are not killed
Too many coffins
Don’t look good
On the French president’s desk
People can count
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Categories:
dozens, political,
Form: ABC
"playing the Dozens" Ode To An Oral Tradition
A tradition rooted in the pain of African chains,
On the auction block, where slaves experienced the insane.
Separated...the strong from the weak...the young from the old,
So that by "The Dozen" these cheap laborers could be sold.
Amongst slaves, this distinction was viewed as a "low blow,"
But was the only label that "The Dozen" would ever know.
Thus began
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Categories:
dozens, on writing and wordswords,
Form: Rhyme
Dozens of Roses For My Mother
A dozen of roses for your Pain,
That I have put you through.
A dozen of roses for your tears,
That I have bestowed upon you.
A dozen of roses for my sorrow,
And all of my forgiveness.
A dozen of roses for your smile,
And the joy I get from your happiness.
A dozen of roses for your forgiveness,
That
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Categories:
dozens, family, love,
Form: I do not know?
Dozens of Flowers...
I dreamt...
I was covered...
Roses...
Daisies...
Chrystals...
Good vibes...
I dreamt
of dreams..
and wishes.......
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Categories:
dozens, friendship, health, history,
Form: ABC